Guro language

Guro
Kweni
Region Ivory Coast
Native speakers
500,000 (2012)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Mande

    • Eastern Mande
      • Southeastern
        • Mano–Dan
          • Guro–Tura
            • Guro–Yaure
              • Guro
Language codes
ISO 639-3 goa
Glottolog guro1248[2]

Kweni (Guro, Gouro), also known as Kwéndré, and Lo) is a Mande language spoken by approximately a million people in Ivory Coast, primarily in the areas of Haut-Sassandra and Marahoue, and the Goh.

References

  1. Guro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Guro". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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